Red 2 and his right glove...
 

1/ Touchscreen GPS moving map ?

2/ Picking your nose on boring transit between displays ?

Touch screen
 

Red 2 an American Exchange pilot by chance?

Those gloves are worn when flying down the Mach Loop....

Rod Leigh, of blessed memory, always called them 'Saturday night' gloves.

They're out there....problem is they are all designed to keep your hands warm when skiing/motorcycling/walking the dog in winter etc opposed to soak sweat, maintain grip and offer an element of fire protection. There is a fluid you can paint on, sort of works but needs constant reapplication, a thread that can be sewn in to the fingertip, single hole punch in finger tip or, as shown, snip the finger off. I've tried all the above, the added problem is with a gloved finger, the lack of accuracy on the touch screen further frustrates, I have seen on fleabay a pair of the US style gloves with a different pad at the fingertips that claim to be compatible, dunno how effective they are....and they're from New Delhi/Bejing/Lagos or similar. so am a little suspicious.

USN gloves are clearly no better
 

It's 'on trend' obviously.

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The old white flying gloves were pretty robust, as I recall.

Except for the time that some procurement idiot thought that the leather of 'Cape Leather' gloves came from nasty apartheid Seth Efrikan Cape of Good Hope animals. Or perhaps from bits snipped off prisoners in Robben Island jails by those nice BOSS people. That would never do - HM's procurement buying stuff from that regime...:rolleyes:

So instead we started getting pale grey gloves made from who knows what. Etruscan goat scrotums or something - they didn't last 5 minutes before ripping. Fortunately sanity soon prevailed and we went back to the original supplier!

Keep it clean? That's why he's got that finger free.

Perhaps for the benefit of 777fly?

I thought special paint for finger application was trialled 2 years ago, and Commodities were on the cusp of procuring new gloves with touchscreen compatible finger tips in the same period.

Beagle's glove memories were preceded by a similar 'bean counter's' cost-saving with the introduction of the first aircrew shirts - made by Van Heusen and excellent quality. Said B-C cast around for a cheaper alternative and the contract went to Faulats of Belfast **who they?). Their product lasted until first wash - shrinkage rate was horrendous. Ultimate nonsense was one of my replacements which had been made up from two different cloths and generated differential shrinkage rates!:{ I suspect that the originating genius woulkd have received his 'O' , or better!:ugh:

The soft blue aircrew shirts were really excellent. Then came those vile olive green roll-neck things, which shrunk like crazy and were very uncomfortable.

No wonder that most squadrons later adopted their own cotton squadron T-shirts. Smart and comfortable!

My aunt and mother both worked for Faulat in Belfast....I can't vouch for the quality of the shirts but they did have a cracking pipe band...thread drift off.

Crewroom gossip used to tell of a time long ago at Ballykelly (?) before the troubles in NI, and the liaison between Shackleton crews and the ladies who made shirts for the RAF in the factory just down the road. The RAF chaps had a competition at the local dance hall to dance with ladies who made different parts of the shirt - once they had danced with the makers of the components of a full garment then the cry of "shirt" would be heard from the dance floor. However, there were also female shouts of "crew" as the competition worked both ways.

Most of us in dark blue would do the same. Trying to free yourself from your sinking parachute harness with wet and slippery gloves was not a pretty prospect. Having one or two "grippy" fingertips would help enormously.